Purchase Order 1333ND26PNB680274
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- The Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology awarded a firm fixed price purchase order valued at $454,550 to Bluefors OY, doing business as Bluefors Cryogenics. The contract is for a dry dilution refrigerator system to meet the technical specifications outlined in solicitation NB686050-20-02311. Key requirements included over 12 milliwatts of cooling capacity at 20 millikelvin, detailed instrumentation, shielding, and space constraints. The refrigerator will...
- The National Institute of Standards and Technology awarded a $510,000 firm fixed price purchase order to Bluefors Cryogenics of Finland for a Dilution Refrigerator Helium Battery System. The solicitation sought quotations for a system with a base temperature below 10 milliKelvin and 400 milliWatt cooling capacity at 100 milliKelvin to support NIST's quantum networking research. There was no set-aside designation. Bluefors will deliver one system to NIST's Boulder, Colorado facility by March 2021...
- The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $729.3K firm fixed-price purchase order to Bluefors Inc. on June 13, 2024, for the procurement and delivery of two dilution refrigerators. The contract, with an ultimate completion date of June 30, 2025, represents a modification to extend the original completion timeline. Bluefors Inc., a Brooklyn, New York-based specialist in advanced cryogenic equipment, will perform the work at its place of performance in Brooklyn. This...
- The National Institute of Standards and Technology awarded a $345,321.70 firm fixed price purchase order to Bluefors Inc. for a dilution refrigerator system. The contract was awarded non-competitively under a solicitation seeking quotations for one dilution refrigerator with associated wiring, packing, shipping, delivery, installation, commissioning, warranty, training, maintenance, repair and travel services to meet specifications in the attached statement of work. Performance will take place...
- Bluefors Inc. was awarded a $388,938.50 firm fixed price purchase order by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to deliver a dilution refrigerator meeting the technical requirements specified in the solicitation. The award is associated with NIST's request for quotation seeking a cryogenic dilution refrigerator capable of achieving base temperatures of 30 milliKelvin or lower with a mixing chamber diameter of at least 150 millimeters. Performance will take place at NIST's...
- The National Institute of Standards and Technology awarded a purchase order to Oxford Instruments America, Inc. for a dilution refrigerator system valued at $441,405.55 on September 11, 2024. This modification corrects a payment schedule error and updates the statement of work delivery timeframe, with ultimate completion scheduled for June 20, 2025. Performance takes place in Great Britain, United Kingdom. The system is procured for the Neutron Physics Group at NIST to support development of...
- The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), an agency of the Department of Commerce, awarded a $515,000 firm fixed price purchase order to Bluefors Inc. for a dilution refrigerator. The refrigerator will support NIST's research in microwave measurements and signal analysis for cryogenic quantum computing applications at its Boulder, Colorado campus. The original solicitation sought a single dry dilution refrigerator to meet technical specifications provided in Attachment 1....
- The Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology awarded a $300,000 firm fixed price purchase order to Bluefors Cryogenics of Finlandiya for a helium-3 dilution refrigeration system. The solicitation sought a single system capable of achieving a base temperature of 35 millikelvin or lower and providing 200 microwatts of cooling power at 100 millikelvin, to support NIST's radioactive sample measurement research program. There was no set-aside designation. Bluefors...
- The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $762,747 firm fixed-price purchase order to Bluefors Inc. on September 21, 2023, for the delivery of a horizontal dry dilution refrigerator system to support the Physics Measurement Laboratory (PML). The contract, which carries an ultimate completion date of September 30, 2025, was awarded without a set-aside designation through full and open competition. Bluefors Inc., a Brooklyn, New York-based manufacturer of advanced...
- This is a firm-fixed-price purchase order awarded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a civilian agency, to Bluefors Inc., a foreign-owned for-profit company, for a SD250 dilution refrigerator system with 40+GHz bandwidth wiring option. The contract has a ceiling value of $385,392.75 and a completion date of May 10, 2024. No set-aside designation was used. The original solicitation sought information on vendors that could provide a sub-kelvin cryostat with optional...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology awarded a purchase order to Danaher Cryogenics LTD for $556,679.84 on July 29, 2026. This is an administrative modification to correct payment terms on a firm fixed-price order with a ceiling value of $556,679.84 and an ultimate completion date of May 15, 2027. The order procures one dilution refrigerator system to support quantum sensors development and quantum information science research. The system must achieve a base temperature of 10 mK or lower and provide cooling power of 200 W or greater at 100 mK, with specified vibration control performance and capability to host multiple simultaneous experiments including full 3-inch or 6-inch wafer-scale testing. The requirement includes installation, training, all shipping costs and tariffs, and original manufacturer packaging with complete documentation and applicable software. Place of performance is the Netherlands. The originating solicitation was Request for Quotation NB687000-26-00757, posted March 5, 2026, with quotations due April 15, 2026.
Name | Description | Solicitation Number | FederalAgency | Type | PostedDate |
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Dilution Refrigerator | NB687000-26-00757 | Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology | Solicitation 1/1 | 3/5/26, 10:26 AM |
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| P26001 | Other Administrative Action | $0 | 7/28/26 |